ABOUT ÅSA LOCKNER

My work is often a collage where I pick up traces and use parts from earlier projects, layered and applied, to test my reasoning. Ovals, drops, stones and pierced metal serve as components of a puzzle used to achieve a balance between the discordant, asymmetrical and twisted. Discovering harmony and beauty demands a broad pallet of material samples, in this process however parts from my collection of ”bits" seldom find their way into the work, they simply serve to indicate the way forward.

"Beauty changes, breaks down and is reborn. Perfection can no longer be believed in. The 20th century Scandinavian dream of the perfect land with ergonomic seating, super-sonic aeroplanes, the pill and shatter-proof porcelain has eroded and evaporated.

Åsa Lockners art does not require perfection from the wearer, on the contrary her jewellery relates to the body, protecting it and says that change is as it should be, that mortality is beautiful", by Petter Eklund.

– Guest teacher at Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm 2007, 2008 and 2009.

– Produced performed and exhibited together with MADE BY: "RGB" for NICE 08 Nordic Art and Culture Festival at Liverpools 2008 European Capital of Culture Event.

– Co-curated and exhibited work in "The Dream And The Dreamer" as part of Londons Fashion & Textile Museums Swedish fashion season. 2007

– Commissioned by the Swedish Institute together with Anna Livén West to act as project leader and curator for the jewellery exhibition and workshops in Moscow and Kaliningrad that became “Sweden Extended” in 2006: Also shown in Minsk and Vitebsk 2007 and in Liverpool 2008.

– Recruited as crafts expert by KF Project Centre for the building and development of Crafts cooperatives in Laos 2006 and 2007.

– Project leader for “Amber and what to do with it”, a project financed by the Swedish Institute in cooperation with the Amber Museum in Kaliningrad. 5 Swedish artists meet 5 Russian artists in Kaliningrad November 2007. Results exhibited at FORM and Konsthantverkarna in Stockholm 2008.